Geoff Wonfor, Director of Beatles 'Anthology,' Dead at 73NEW YORK—Geoff Wonfor, a Grammy-winning British filmmaker who directed the Beatles’ "Anthology" documentary series and worked on the 1980s music program "The Tube" as well as several projects with Paul McCartney, has died at age 73.
His death was confirmed Tuesday by daughter Sam Wonfor, who said he died in Newcastle, where he grew up. Additional details were not immediately available.
Released in the mid-1990s, "The Beatles Anthology" was an authorized, multimedia project that included an eight-part documentary, three double albums and a coffee table book. Wonfor spent 4.5 years on the film, which combined archival footage with new interviews with the then-three surviving Beatles (McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, who died in 2001). Wonfor’s challenges included weaving in commentary from John Lennon, who had been murdered in 1980....
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